Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Fellow, Pulmonary, Critical Care And Sleep Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine 2002 - 2005
  • M.P.H., University of Illinois 2005
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Nassau University Medical Center 1998 - 2002
  • M.B.B.S., King Edward Medical University 1995
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Medical Instructor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Medicine 2010 - 2011
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Pilot Study for Feasibility of Next Generation Sequencing for Detection of Lung Cancer ALK and ROS1 Mutation. awarded by HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc 2019 - 2021
  • CTOT - Cell Free DNA awarded by Mount Sinai School of Medicine 2016 - 2017
  • AminoIndex awarded by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. 2016 - 2017
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Folch, EE, Pritchett, MA, Nead, MA, Bowling, MR, Murgu, SD, Krimsky, WS, Murillo, BA, LeMense, GP, Minnich, DJ, Bansal, S, Ellis, BQ, Mahajan, AK, Gildea, TR, Bechara, RI, Sztejman, E, Flandes, J, Rickman, OB, Benzaquen, S, Hogarth, DK, Linden, PA, Wahidi, MM, Mattingley, JS, Hood, KL, Lin, H, Wolvers, JJ, Khandhar, SJ, and NAVIGATE Study Investigators, . "Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy for Peripheral Pulmonary Lesions: One-Year Results of the Prospective, Multicenter NAVIGATE Study." Journal of Thoracic Oncology : Official Publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 14, no. 3 (March 2019): 445-458.  Full Text
    • Davidson, KR, Elmasri, M, Wahidi, MM, Shofer, SL, Cheng, GZ, and Mahmood, K. "Management of Lung Transplant Bronchial Stenosis With Mitomycin C." Journal of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology (August 22, 2018).  Full Text
    • DeMaio, A, Clarke, JM, Dash, R, Sebastian, S, Wahidi, MM, Shofer, SL, Cheng, GZ, Li, X, Wang, X, and Mahmood, K. "Yield of Malignant Pleural Effusion for Detection of Oncogenic Driver Mutations in Lung Adenocarcinoma." Journal of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology (July 25, 2018).  Full Text
    • Argento, AC, Gilstrap, DL, Shofer, S, Mahmood, K, Blackwell, K, and Wahidi, MM. "Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration in the Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Thoracic Metastases and Detection of Receptor Discordance." Journal of Bronchology & Interventional Pulmonology 25, no. 3 (July 2018): 176-180.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, Ebner, L, He, M, Robertson, SH, Wang, Z, McAdams, HP, Wahidi, MM, Shofer, SL, Huang, YT, and Driehuys, B. "Novel Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Assessment of Bronchial Stenosis in Lung Transplant Recipients." American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 17, no. 7 (July 2017): 1895-1904.  Full Text
    • Wahidi, MM, Reddy, C, Yarmus, L, Feller-Kopman, D, Musani, A, Shepherd, RW, Lee, H, Bechara, R, Lamb, C, Shofer, S, Mahmood, K, Michaud, G, Puchalski, J, Rafeq, S, Cattaneo, SM, Mullon, J, Leh, S, Mayse, M, Thomas, SM, Peterson, B, and Light, RW. "Randomized Trial of Pleural Fluid Drainage Frequency in Patients with Malignant Pleural Effusions. The ASAP Trial." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 195, no. 8 (April 2017): 1050-1057.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, and Wahidi, MM. "The Changing Role for Tracheostomy in Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation." Clinics in chest medicine 37, no. 4 (December 2016): 741-751. (Review)  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, Kraft, BD, Glisinski, K, Hartwig, MG, Harlan, NP, Piantadosi, CA, and Shofer, SL. "Safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for management of central airway stenosis after lung transplant." Clinical Transplantation 30, no. 9 (September 2016): 1134-1139.  Full Text
    • Sciurba, FC, Criner, GJ, Strange, C, Shah, PL, Michaud, G, Connolly, TA, Deslée, G, Tillis, WP, Delage, A, Marquette, C-H, Krishna, G, Kalhan, R, Ferguson, JS, Jantz, M, Maldonado, F, McKenna, R, Majid, A, Rai, N, Gay, S, Dransfield, MT, Angel, L, Maxfield, R, Herth, FJF, Wahidi, MM, Mehta, A, Slebos, D-J, and RENEW Study Research Group, . "Effect of Endobronchial Coils vs Usual Care on Exercise Tolerance in Patients With Severe Emphysema: The RENEW Randomized Clinical Trial." Jama 315, no. 20 (May 2016): 2178-2189.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, Wahidi, MM, Osann, KE, Coles, K, Shofer, SL, Volker, EE, and Davoudi, M. "Development of a Tool to Assess Basic Competency in the Performance of Rigid Bronchoscopy." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 13, no. 4 (April 2016): 502-511.  Full Text
    • Kraft, BD, Suliman, HB, Colman, EC, Mahmood, K, Hartwig, MG, Piantadosi, CA, and Shofer, SL. "Hypoxic Gene Expression of Donor Bronchi Linked to Airway Complications after Lung Transplantation." American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine 193, no. 5 (March 2016): 552-560.  Full Text
    • Rahmatullah, A, and Mahmood, K. "The Diagnostic Yield of Bronchoalveolar Lavage and Transbronchial Lung Biopsy in Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis." Chest 148, no. 4 (October 2015): 786A-786A.  Full Text
    • Ost, DE, Ernst, A, Grosu, HB, Lei, X, Diaz-Mendoza, J, Slade, M, Gildea, TR, Machuzak, MS, Jimenez, CA, Toth, J, Kovitz, KL, Ray, C, Greenhill, S, Casal, RF, Almeida, FA, Wahidi, MM, Eapen, GA, Feller-Kopman, D, Morice, RC, Benzaquen, S, Tremblay, A, Simoff, M, and AQuIRE Bronchoscopy Registry, . "Therapeutic bronchoscopy for malignant central airway obstruction: success rates and impact on dyspnea and quality of life." Chest 147, no. 5 (May 2015): 1282-1298.  Full Text
    • Argento, AC, Wolfe, CR, Wahidi, MM, Shofer, SL, and Mahmood, K. "Bronchomediastinal fistula caused by endobronchial aspergilloma." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 12, no. 1 (January 2015): 91-95.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, Wahidi, MM, Thomas, S, Argento, AC, Ninan, NA, Smathers, EC, and Shofer, SL. "Therapeutic bronchoscopy improves spirometry, quality of life, and survival in central airway obstruction." Respiration; International Review of Thoracic Diseases 89, no. 5 (January 2015): 404-413.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, and Wahidi, MM. "Ablative therapies for central airway obstruction." Seminars in respiratory and critical care medicine 35, no. 6 (December 2, 2014): 681-692. (Review)  Full Text
    • Pathak, V, Welsby, I, Mahmood, K, Wahidi, M, MacIntyre, N, and Shofer, S. "Ventilation and anesthetic approaches for rigid bronchoscopy." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 11, no. 4 (May 2014): 628-634. (Review)  Full Text
    • Wahidi, MM, Hulett, C, Pastis, N, Shepherd, RW, Shofer, SL, Mahmood, K, Lee, H, Malhotra, R, Moser, B, and Silvestri, GA. "Learning experience of linear endobronchial ultrasound among pulmonary trainees." Chest 145, no. 3 (March 2014): 574-578.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, Shofer, SL, Moser, BK, Argento, AC, Smathers, EC, and Wahidi, MM. "Hemorrhagic complications of thoracentesis and small-bore chest tube placement in patients taking clopidogrel." Annals of the American Thoracic Society 11, no. 1 (January 2014): 73-79.  Full Text
    • Shofer, SL, Dunphy, F, Mahmood, K, Wahidi, MM, and Yoo, D. "Endobronchial fiducial to guide stereotactic body radiotherapy." J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol 20, no. 3 (July 2013): 274-275.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Mahmood, K, and Wahidi, MM. "Straightening out chest tubes: what size, what type, and when." Clinics in Chest Medicine 34, no. 1 (March 2013): 63-71. (Review)  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, Koubar, S, Shofer, SL, Ninan, NA, and Wahidi, MM. "Alendronate tracheobronchitis." Ann Am Thorac Soc 10, no. 1 (February 2013): 64-66.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Mahmood, K, Eldeirawi, K, and Wahidi, MM. "Association of gender with outcomes in critically ill patients." Critical Care (London, England) 16, no. 3 (January 2012): R92-null.  Full Text
    • Bower, C, and Mahmood, K. "Re: Noninvasive repair of broken tunneled pleural catheters." Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 22, no. 2 (2011): 255-256.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, and Bower, C. "Treatment of infection associated with tunneled pleural catheters." Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology 17, no. 1 (January 1, 2010): 69-72.  Full Text
    • Vu, K, Mahmood, K, and Subramanian, S. "Oxaliplatin-induced eosinophilic pneumonia: a case report and review of the literature." Community Oncology 6, no. 9 (September 2009): 422-424.  Full Text
    • Akhter, N, Sinnott, B, Mahmood, K, Rao, S, Kukreja, S, and Barengolts, E. "Effects of vitamin D insufficiency on bone mineral density in African American men." Osteoporosis International 20, no. 5 (2009): 745-750.  Full Text
    • Mahmood, K, Akhter, N, Eldeirawi, K, Önal, E, Christman, JW, Carley, DW, and Herdegen, JJ. "Prevalence of type 2 diabetes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea in a multi-ethnic sample." Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine 5, no. 3 (2009): 215-221.
    • Atia, A, Khiani, A, Kanneganti, V, Bower, C, and Mahmood, K. "Thoracic splenosis: The scar is the clue." Clinical Pulmonary Medicine 15, no. 6 (2008): 363-366.  Full Text
    • Sheth, N, Mahmood, K, Singh, B, Carter-Adkins, D, and Pachulski, SRT. "Audible implantable cardioverter defibrillator alarms detect intermittent conductor discontinuity." Canadian Journal of Cardiology 18, no. 4 (2002): 430-432.

  • Conference Papers

    • Ahmed, S, Kessler, E, Mahmood, K, Shofer, S, Wahidi, M, and Cheng, G. "Unique Airway Malformation in Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis Patient: Complete Bronchial Membranous Web and Its Management." October 2017.  Full Text
    • Boole, L, Dahhan, T, Kessler, E, Mahmood, K, Shofer, S, Wahidi, M, and Cheng, G. "A Novel, Handheld, Positive Airway Pressure Device for Coughing in Severe Acquired Tracheobronchomalacia." October 2017.  Full Text
    • Kessler, E, Merrick, C, Wahidi, M, Shofer, S, Cheng, G, and Mahmood, K. "Predictors Associated With Success of Therapeutic Bronchoscopy in Malignant Central Airway Obstruction." October 2017.  Full Text
    • Smith, J, Emily, C, Kessler, E, Mahmood, K, Shofer, S, Wahidi, M, and Cheng, G. "A Case of Mycobacterium Avium Complex Masquerading as a Lung Mass in a Lung Transplant Recipient." : Elsevier BV, October 2017.  Full Text
    • Demaio, A, Dash, RC, Sebastian, S, Clarke, JM, Wahidi, MM, and Mahmood, K. "Comprehensive Genetic Mutation Analysis On Pleural Effusions Related To Lung Adenocarcinoma." International Conference of the American-Thoracic-Society (ATS). Washington, DC. May 19, 2017 - May 24, 2017.: AMER THORACIC SOC, January 1, 2017.  Link to Item
    • Dorry, M, Shofer, S, Mahmood, K, Glisinski, K, and Snyder, L. "Post-Transplant Pulmonary Embolism Is Associated With Allograft Dysfunction and Worse Survival." October 2016.  Full Text
    • Giovacchini, CX, and Mahmood, K. "Blame It On The Dog: A Rare Case Of Disseminated Blastomycosis Diagnosed Via Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (ebus-Tbna)." International Conference of the American-Thoracic-Society (ATS). San Francisco, CA. May 13, 2016 - May 18, 2016.: AMER THORACIC SOC, January 1, 2016.  Link to Item
    • He, M, Robertson, SH, Wang, JM, Que, LG, Mahmood, K, Driehuys, B, and Huang, Y-C. "Characterizing The Ventilation Distribution In Healthy Normal Subjects To Establish Robust Quantitative Analysis Of 129xe Mri." 2016.  Link to Item
    • Mahmood, K, Elmasri, M, Wahidi, MM, Snyder, L, and Shofer, SL. "Role Of Mitomycin C Application In Lung Transplantation Related Airway Stenosis." 2016.  Link to Item
    • Ali, HA, Snyder, LD, Mahmood, K, Wahidi, MM, Argento, AC, Larrier, NA, and Shofer, SL. "High Dose Brachytherapy For Bronchial Stenosis In Lung Transplant Recipients." 2015.  Link to Item

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